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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.
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Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
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